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I think it must be naked or nearly so. Men only come and they in groups are connected by handkerchief, each having hold of one end. It is a symbol of unity. The body of a man is lain on the outside row, the women in the middle one, the children next. In the center is a deep well. The body is left, and in two hours the vultures, which have been sitting in rows on all the walls of the towers waiting, and which began a terrible shrieking when the funeral appeared, have picked the bones clean. A few days after the sun has done its work and they are swept off into the center. Here sun and water disintegrate them and there [illegible] the material...